4. Design a working schedule for a visit to the weather station
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A weather station is a facility, either on land or sea, with instruments and equipment for measuring atmospheric conditions to provide information for weather forecasts and to study the weather and climate. The measurements taken include temperature, atmospheric pressure, humidity, wind speed, wind direction, and precipitation amounts. Wind measurements are taken with as few other obstructions as possible, while temperature and humidity measurements are kept free from direct solar radiation, or insolation. Manual observations are taken at least once daily, while automated measurements are taken at least once an hour. Weather conditions out at sea are taken by ships and buoys, which measure slightly different meteorological quantities such as sea surface temperature (SST), wave height, and wave period. Drifting weather buoys outnumber their moored versions by a significant amount.
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A weather station can be a valuable resource to schools. The new National Curriculum for England specifies the need
to study weather in geography, and it must be measured as part of the science curriculum. In addition, local weather
observations can be used in ICT, English, sport and other subjects.
Automatic weather stations which measure temperature, humidity, wind speed and direction, rainfall and pressure,
and transmit this data wirelessly to the classroom, are now affordable by most schools. Although a relatively open
site is to be preferred, if this is not available then useful measurements can be made in some location in the grounds
of almost all schools. Even affordable stations can be pretty reliable, but do require periodic access to change
batteries, clear out obstructions from the rain gauge, etc.
Many weather stations can be linked to a computer and the observations can be put on the school website, and also
transmitted to many amateur networks. One of these, the Weather Observations Website, allows the school’s data
to be used by the Met Office HQ in Exeter, and also maps the data on the website so that it can be easily compared
with other similar observations, both locally and all around the world.
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